1. How can the reasoning process of continuity and change be applied to analyze industrialization from 1865 to 1898?
2. What is the difference between corroborating an argument with examples and qualifying an argument by introducing exceptions?
3. How did large-scale industries like Carnegie Steel and Standard Oil both continue and change existing market patterns?
1. What is the difference between everyday context and historical context as understood by historians?
2. What are the two main skills involved in contextualization and how do they differ?
3. How could barbed wire be contextualized within multiple broader historical developments of the late 1800s?
4. What specific examples could illustrate the broader historical context of the labor movement?
1. What two main functions should a strong introduction serve in a long essay?
2. How should an introduction convey the framework, organizational pattern, and reasoning process of an essay without explicitly stating them?
3. How does an introduction demonstrate contextualization and why is this important for establishing historical perspective?
4. How does the example introduction about industrial capitalism from 1865 to 1898 connect the specific time period to broader historical changes in American culture?